| 单词 | leather |
| 释义 | leather (once / 278 pages) nv Leather is a material that's made from animal skin and used to make shoes, bags, furniture covers, and many other things. You might be too hot if you wear your leather pants to the beach. Most expensive, well-made shoes are made of leather — although it's pliable and easy to shape, it's also extremely strong and long-lasting. To make leather, the skin of an animal is stripped of all fur or hair, and then tanned, or treated to keep it from cracking and drying. The leather collars on early US Marines' uniforms led to their nickname being "leathernecks." WORD FAMILYleather: leathered, leathering, leatherlike, leathers, leathery USAGE EXAMPLESTonight, it’s a convergence of downtown, uptown, East and West — polo shirts with leather jackets, suits with Converse. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The leather jacket he’d worn and the jukebox from “Faith.” New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) Mr. Obama often reads through it in a leather swivel chair at his tablelike desk, under a portrait of President Ulysses S. Grant. New York Times(Jul 02, 2016) 1n an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning Hypo|Hyper piece of leather a separate part consisting of leather grainthe side of leather from which the hair has been removed alligatorleather made from alligator's hide buckskina soft yellowish suede leather originally from deerskin but now usually from sheepskin buffa soft thick undyed leather from the skins of e.g. buffalo or oxen ooze leathera very soft leather made from the skins of calves and having a suede finish on the flesh side Russia leathera smooth leather tanned with willow, birch, or oak, and scented on the flesh side with birch oil calf, calfskinfine leather from the skin of a calf whit leather, white leathera leather that has been treated with alum and/or salt chammy, chammy leather, chamois, chamois leather, shammy, shammy leathera soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin cordovana fine leather originally made in Cordoba, Spain cowhide, cowskinleather made from the hide of a cow crush, crushed leatherleather that has had its grain pattern accentuated deerskinleather from the hide of a deer doeskinsoft leather from deerskin or lambskin glove leatherleather suitable for making gloves horsehideleather from the hide of a horse kid, kidskinsoft smooth leather from the hide of a young goat mochasoft suede glove leather from goatskin moroccoa soft pebble-grained leather made from goatskin; used for shoes and book bindings etc. patent leatherleather with a hard glossy surface pigskinleather from the skin of swine fleece, sheepskintanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing shoe leatherleather used to make shoes suede, suede leatherleather with a napped surface roana soft sheepskin leather that is colored and finished to resemble morocco; used in bookbinding counter, heel countera piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot quarterpiece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp saddlea piece of leather across the instep of a shoe upperpiece of leather or synthetic material that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole that encases the foot vamppiece of leather forming the front part of the upper of a shoe wash leatherpiece of chamois used for cleaning and polishing Levant, Levant moroccoa heavy morocco often used in bookbinding Golden Fleecein Greek mythology, a fleece of gold owned by the king of Colchis and guarded in a sacred grove by a dragon; recovered by Jason and the Argonauts box calfblack calfskin leather tanned with chromium salts animal skin the outer covering of an animal 2v whip with a leather strap Hyper flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip beat severely with a whip or rod |
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